Jaca No. 8 / Chaca / Xaca

INFORMATION

Font ID: 20802JAC

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Font Century and Period/Style: 10th century (early?), Early Romanesque

Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de San Pedro el Viejo [ruins]

Font Location in Church: [disappeared]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter

Church Notes: earliest site probably Visigothic (6th-7thC); present ruins of church here ca. 920-930? renovated 1631; demolished 1841; excavated 21stC -- [cf. entry for this site in Antonio García Omedes [www.castillodeloarre.org/HU-Jacetania/08-JacaSPV01.htm] [accessed 1 December 2016]

Church Address: Plaza de S. Pedro, Jaca, 22700 Huesca, Spain

Site Location: Huesca, Aragón, Spain, Europe

Directions to Site: The ruins discovered and re-buried in Plaza de San Pedro, Jaca town centre

Historical Region: Jacetania

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-10thC church here, and perhaps a Visigothic basilica earlier)

Font Notes: Click to view

[cf. https://www.romanicoaragones.com/0-Jacetania/08-JacaSPV01.htm for details of the excavation and ruins]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 701159 4716033